#paper pride

Nikkie for Paper Pride 2020

Charli XCX: What's the most inspiring thing in Brazil for you? Pabllo Vittar: The LGBTQ+ community. The feminine gays. I make music for them. They are a wonderful part of the community... and not only the feminine gays, but the community as a whole, and we are a very strong community. That makes me feel happy about being born in Brazil. If I could have chosen where I was born, I would have wanted to be born here anyway, because the LGBTQ+ people here in Brazil are very strong. I don't mean that the community is not strong in other places, but here we have a job to do — to unite as people.

"I was blown away with my first encounter with a woman.It's one thing to really know yourself and know how you react to things, but when you first start to understand and love a woman, you really almost get intimidated with how epic a woman is.I feel like guys don't get it.It's probably something that stumps them. Like how are you this compassionate? How do you have this much empathy? How do you hold this much space for so many people? How do you hold this much space for me? How do you love me this much and are willing to nurture me while nurturing and loving yourself? And I think that's the complexity that I thank God that we have. Because I see men everyday who aren't able to deal with life and aren't able to empathize or be compassionate.People do this whole man and woman thing.When they take the man out and put in another woman, there still has to be this balance of hard and soft, dominant and submissive. Not realizing that first of all, every human is versatile, I don't care who it is. I've experienced enough sexual relations with men to know that they can be soft, too. But there's always this need to fill that binary outline out. That's what stops a lot of people from stepping out and exploring their queerness — especially women, because they get nervous about what role they'll be 'taking on.' Once they get through that, the world just opens up."